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HI,
I HAVE PROBLEM WITH MY HARD DISK.THERE WAS VIEWING BADSECTOR IN MY HARD DISK. HOW TO RECOVER BAD SECTOR IN MY HDD. I HOPE YOU ARE UNDERSTAND MY PROBLEM. ADVANCE THANKS.KUMAR
It's a big problem, because when the hdd infforms a bad sector, this means the hdd can't access phisically to this sector, so they can't work in it.
You can try to do a 'low level format' thru the BIOS setup. Maybe, only maybe, you can recover this sector, otherwise, start to think to buy another hdd, it's more safe for your programs...
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hold on.. don't do the low level format...
what you can do, and I have sugested it in many fourms already is to download a program called SpinRite 5.0 from www.grc.com.
it will cost you aboutt $90.00.
But it is well worth it.
It can recover sectors previously marked bad.,
Go to the website and check it out.
It may save your harddrive.Tank863
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90 bucks will replace most hard drives nowadays with better/faster parts.
Mosy modern BIOSes have eliminated the low-level format option, but if your data is backed up (and there is no excuse for not backing up important data) using low-level format or "media analysis" available on older motherboards works pretty well.
I keep an old 386 around just to recover old drives. :)
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HI,
I HAVE PROBLEM WITH MY HARD DISK.THERE WAS VIEWING BADSECTOR IN MY HARD DISK. HOW TO RECOVER BAD SECTOR IN MY HDD. I HOPE YOU ARE UNDERSTAND MY PROBLEM. ADVANCE THANKS.
KUMAR
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restart in MSDOS, not MSDOS prompt in windows. Or start with a startup disk. Then type FORMAT DRIVELETTER: /s /c to recover bad sector and test if it is still usable. OR, it could be a virus...
Warning, this will reformat your hardisk and will lose all files, backup required.
ex.
FORMAT C: /s /c]
or
FORMAT C: /u
both will recover detect and recover BADSect.
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hi
plz can any body tell me where i can find
maintenance software
i'll aprreciate any help
thanx
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Hi, sorry to bother you with another aspect of this topic:
My Girlfriends SCSI-HD crashed - means - it made ugly sounds and Windows refused to start. Although I was able to get a DOS-Prompt without a startdisk and could RW-access the disk WIN98 didn't even write a bootlog.txt and Scandisk hung up at 1%. Instead of instantly backing up all data in DOS-environment(which I should have done) I chose the SCSI-Host-Adapter utility to search bad sectors and found several of them. The Utility coulnd't reassign all bad sectors and sometimes got an 'unexpected timeout' but there was progress and I was hopeful again. One fateful 'timeout' later the first sector of the HD seemed to be damaged, too. I tried to repair it in the described manner and there was no timeout - but no progress either. There was only one suspicious sound repeating for hundrets of times - before I shut down the computer. Somehow the SCSI-Utility flagged the HD "connected - but not accessible". As the SCSI-Host-Adapter blocks the access to the disk before any OS-parts are loaded I can't get any tool running to recover Data as described in your previous postings. Question:
HOW CAN I REMOVE THIS DAMNED FLAG: "connected - but not accessible"I know this is a big effort with little hope, but there is very important data (diploma-thesis) on the disk and cunningly there are no backups!
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Well man all I can say is sell the hard disk. But wait...... no one will purchase it with bad sectors. But!!! there i a way out. Go to "cnet.com", do a search for bad sectors. I don't need to tell ya. You will do it !!!! Softwares will hide bad sectors not remove them so hide and then sell your harddisk!!!
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Im using windows XP .........how you restore the bad sectors.
Mine were caused by the computer transformer
power supply failing.Anyone have any suggestions.
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Dear
I have done most of your suggestion but low levl format and I have the promlem yet. If it is possible let me know how can the bad sector be hidden and read only.
your scencerly
Ebrahimi
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While installing windows XP , you should format your hard drive in NTFS system for the recovery of bad sectors. But caution! win 98 cannot read from NTFS system.
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